Starting at the end of 2024 and continuing throughout 2025, the Cardano Product Committee of Intersect facilitated the first community-led process to propose a 2030 Cardano Vision and Strategy. During the first part of 2025 this process also received delegated authority and funding by Cardano DReps during the 2025 budget cycle.

The extensive process the Product Committee followed, which involved 700+ people, focused on collecting as much input as possible from the broader community with attention to representative groups via different channels such as surveys, focus groups and remote and in-person workshops, and then reconnecting with those same groups to review a draft proposal based on the input provided. This process can be reused in the future to keep both Vision and Strategy updated (high level process mapped):

1. Input collection - Workshops
2. Focus group SPOs
3. Surveys
4. Conversations with founding entities leaders from IOG, Cardano Foundation, EMURGO
5. Business calls
6. Drafted proposal
7. Reviewed proposal Workshops
   • Proposal link and history on github
8. Approved budget withdrawal on 17th August